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BLADE HOUND
So while I am a gun nut I have a special place in my hart for first grade knives. I have spent a small fortune on blades to find the right one for me. While my choice might not be your first choice I wanted to start this thread because deep down inside i prefer my blades to my rifles special when in an escape, evasion and survival situation. My blade will keep me warm with helping me process wood, my blade will feed me by helping me hunt. Maybe not as much as my rifle but try processing wood with a AR-15 
. My blade will build me a shelter and my blade will provide adequate self defense protection.
Well at the begging I thought of RAMBO of course who else tacticool knife Hollywood Kick but stuff the best of the best. right? WRONG! Hollywood is Hollywood and as you know the coolest most used gun in hollywood is the Desert Egale .50. While it looks cool as hell and oh man! Sexy as hell on Laura Croft in tomb raider I do not know one person that would choose it as a side arm in real world situation. (Im sure one of you guys would my apologies to you) So no rambo knives so I thought Marine K-Bar they have to have the best knife for survival right. Wrong Again! The Marine K-bar while a very good knife it is a fighting knife not a survival Knife. It would be limited at what it could do as well as the Navy's Pilot knife.
So where to go Hmm. Sog Navy Seals elite. Man they the Elite their so called knife has to be the Bomb!! I bought Two the Seki Japan which by the way it will be part of my permeant collection because it is a cool asz knife and the Newer Taiwan version Both great knife but not what I was looking for. So hey maybe the smaller Pup. And I know A lot of you guys love this knife I can not give the nod to a knife that will not process wood very good.
What now Hmm. So started doing more research on what a survival knife is all about and came Up with the Becker BK-2 WOW what a kick butt knife process wood like it is no thing but man the grips suck and wow it heavy. So got some micarta grips and man outstanding can not beat the price Love it . It is on my permanent gear by the way. but when it was all said and done I had spent a pretty penny on it so it was no longer a 60 $ knife.
So I said to my self their has to be a whole package out their and I will warn you nothing under 100 buck will stand up to the BK2 so if that is your budget the BK-2 is very hard to beat. Checked out ESEE Formally known as RAT Randall Adventure Training made by Ontario for Rat. Fell in love with the Esee 5 What a cool knife I wanted it so bad to be my top pick and for many of you it will be I am sure. But unfortunately for me the handle did not work out for my I got sharp pains in my right hand after using the tool for a while and it was the shape of the micarta. Know I was a X mechanic and the same thing happened to me when I was wheeling my snap on wrenches I thing it is more due to pre arthritis condition more than anything. So while I wanted the Esee 5 to rock the world it would not be the knife for me.
Spend a few more hundred bucks until I discovered my crown jewel knife. Bark River Bravo 1. while not a cheap knife the grip fit my hand like a glove the grind was perfect. very light weight. Field test was out of this world. While a lot of Bark river knife owners do not like the to fire striker swell I rather like it. It might not be the friendliest thing for my batton it is great when it comes down to knotting. It in no way looks as cool as the ESEE 5 but bottom line a tool is a tool and who care what it looks likes. I ended up giving up the ESEE 5 and the ESEE H.E.S.T to a good friend of mine and he thinks they are the best thing since sliced bread. So that goes to show their is no good answer which is the best knife out there. But BRAVO 1 From Bark River was the one for me. Oh and with a very big heads up to the ESEE IZULA a must for any back packer.
Tell Us about your first pick and why I would love to hear about it.
. My blade will build me a shelter and my blade will provide adequate self defense protection. Well at the begging I thought of RAMBO of course who else tacticool knife Hollywood Kick but stuff the best of the best. right? WRONG! Hollywood is Hollywood and as you know the coolest most used gun in hollywood is the Desert Egale .50. While it looks cool as hell and oh man! Sexy as hell on Laura Croft in tomb raider I do not know one person that would choose it as a side arm in real world situation. (Im sure one of you guys would my apologies to you)
So no rambo knives so I thought Marine K-Bar they have to have the best knife for survival right. Wrong Again! The Marine K-bar while a very good knife it is a fighting knife not a survival Knife. It would be limited at what it could do as well as the Navy's Pilot knife. So where to go Hmm. Sog Navy Seals elite. Man they the Elite their so called knife has to be the Bomb!! I bought Two the Seki Japan which by the way it will be part of my permeant collection because it is a cool asz knife and the Newer Taiwan version Both great knife but not what I was looking for. So hey maybe the smaller Pup. And I know A lot of you guys love this knife I can not give the nod to a knife that will not process wood very good.
What now Hmm. So started doing more research on what a survival knife is all about and came Up with the Becker BK-2 WOW what a kick butt knife process wood like it is no thing but man the grips suck and wow it heavy. So got some micarta grips and man outstanding can not beat the price Love it . It is on my permanent gear by the way. but when it was all said and done I had spent a pretty penny on it so it was no longer a 60 $ knife.
So I said to my self their has to be a whole package out their and I will warn you nothing under 100 buck will stand up to the BK2 so if that is your budget the BK-2 is very hard to beat. Checked out ESEE Formally known as RAT Randall Adventure Training made by Ontario for Rat. Fell in love with the Esee 5 What a cool knife I wanted it so bad to be my top pick and for many of you it will be I am sure. But unfortunately for me the handle did not work out for my I got sharp pains in my right hand after using the tool for a while and it was the shape of the micarta. Know I was a X mechanic and the same thing happened to me when I was wheeling my snap on wrenches I thing it is more due to pre arthritis condition more than anything. So while I wanted the Esee 5 to rock the world it would not be the knife for me.
Spend a few more hundred bucks until I discovered my crown jewel knife. Bark River Bravo 1. while not a cheap knife the grip fit my hand like a glove the grind was perfect. very light weight. Field test was out of this world. While a lot of Bark river knife owners do not like the to fire striker swell I rather like it. It might not be the friendliest thing for my batton it is great when it comes down to knotting. It in no way looks as cool as the ESEE 5 but bottom line a tool is a tool and who care what it looks likes. I ended up giving up the ESEE 5 and the ESEE H.E.S.T to a good friend of mine and he thinks they are the best thing since sliced bread. So that goes to show their is no good answer which is the best knife out there. But BRAVO 1 From Bark River was the one for me. Oh and with a very big heads up to the ESEE IZULA a must for any back packer.
Tell Us about your first pick and why I would love to hear about it.
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. You are very right about the bark river knives. But if your on a budget like me, that knife is just too damn expensive. Awesome yes, no debate there. That damn ESEE-5 is hard to beat man. As you know i field tested it on my last outing and i was more than impressed with this incredible tool. I beat on it repeatedly batoning kindling. You wipe it off and you can't tell you even did anything with it. While it maintained a good edge. I could still slice paper clean with it afterward. In fact i still haven't needed to touch up the edge yet. Fantastic blade!
